Director:
Division of Clinical Epidemiology, McGill University
Health Centre Professor:
Departments of Medicine and of Epidemiology & Biostatistics,
McGill University Associate Member: Departments
of Mathematics and Statistics and of Neurology & Neurosurgery,
McGill University Associate Member: (Epidemiology),
Division of Geriatrics, Jewish
General Hospital
Staff Investigator: Lady Davis Institute
for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital Associate Member: Bloomfield Centre
for Research in Aging, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish
General Hospital Active Member: Centre for Neurotranslational
Research, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital
Research
Interests: Neuroepidemiology,
Multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease,
biostatistics, health services,
geriatrics, population
research, neurology, neurodegenerative diseases
Biosketch:
Professor
Christina Wolfson is the Director of Clinical Epidemiology
of the McGill University Health Centre and is a Professor
in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and
Occupational Health and in the Department of Medicine
at McGill University. She is also an Associate Member
in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, the
Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the Division
of Geriatric Medicine at McGill University.
She
has a BSc in Mathematics and an MSc in Mathematical Statistics
from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics
at McGill. She earned her PhD degree in Epidemiology and
Biostatistics in 1985 from the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
at McGill University.
As a neuroepidemiologist her program
of research lies in the epidemiology of neurodegenerative
disorders, particularly
dementia and multiple sclerosis. More recently she has
developed research interests in the epidemiology of Parkinson’s
disease and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. She also conducts
research in population-based studies of the needs of seniors
living in the community, and is a co-Principal Investigator
on the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging, a planned
20-year study of 50,000 participants aged 40 to 84 to be
launched in 2008. Apart from her substantive research in
geriatrics and in neurology, Dr. Wolfson maintains an active
methodological and statistical research program, the goals
of which are to improve both the design and analysis of
observational studies.
